This Website uses Drupal

This page is being created to help store information useful in the construction of this website.

Using Pictures in Drupal

Image Assist

• Drupal Img_Assist Module 
• An easier way to add images to posts (a complete rewrite of img_assist), screenshots

Installing & Using Gallery2 in Drupal

• This page Shows a discussion about Gallery: http://drupal.org/node/30505
• Gallery2: How to Imbed Gallery2 in Drupal
• Gallery2: Imbedded Rewrites
• This link shows a Gallery 2 Issues page: http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/GMC:Drupal_Issues
• NetPBM: Gallery 2 uses this program to do some of it's functions
• Download NetPBM
• NetPBM User Manual
•  Gallery2 module: Is this really all it does? contains a discussion of how to install and get Gallery2 and Drupal working together, and using the same login for both.
•  This is a website with an integrated Gallery 2 : The Perry Family Website
•  Gallery2, taxonomy etc. Quote: "I have just installed Gallery 2 inside a drupal installation and found it to be a bit trickier that I'd expected." (Then he gives some instructions)
• Google Search about Moving Gallery 2

Examples of Gallery2 in Drupal

• The Palmengarten in Frankfurt am Main
• This link shows Gallery running on Drupal: http://drupal.gallery2.org/

How to customize Front Page

• http://drupal.org/comment/reply/30596/52581
• Use Mission to customize front page Print Mission
• Print Mission on the Front Page: http://drupal.org/node/2166

• Customising full page layouts and sections

Backing up the MySQL database:

• http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/disaster-prevention.html

Creating and Maintaining a Test Site

• http://drupal.org/creating-drupal-test-sites

Using Anchors

• ON the Anchor (going to) page, use the wysiwyg editor to create and name the anchor i.e. "youranchorname".
  • Make sure "Full HTML" is chosen.
  • Click on "submit"
  • The anchored text should turn bold
  • Copy the URL in the address line
• ON the Link (transfer from) page, Using the WYSIWYG editor,
  • Choose (highlight) your link text, and create the link from the toolbar.
  • paste the address you copied from the anchor page, i.e. www.mywebsite.com/note/45, into the create link box.
  • Now add "#youranchorname" to the end of the address, i.e. "www.mywebsite.com/note/45#youranchorname"
  • click "insert" on the link box.
  • click "submit" on the bottom of the page.
  • Now, test it out.

Role Permissions

• Forum Role permissions, How do I set up role permissions for containers and forums?
• Taxonomy Access Control
• Permission control -Requirements 
• Node Privacy by role
• More flexible group based permission system
• Node-level permissions requirements and UI design
• How do I implement a multi-department site?
• Developing a government website in Drupal?

Organic Groups

• Organic groups
• Organic Groups Integration with CiviCRM 
• drupal: contributions/modules/organic groups, the latest cvs version
• Taxonomy Access vs Organic Groups
• Assigning roles upon registratrion vs using organic groups
• View ACL messes up with OG Public audience

Flexinodes

• Flexinode was created to let non-programmers design their own nodes.

Using Sections

• For an example of a website using the Sections Module: see "The Progressive" website.
• Here is a Drupal Discussion about using the Sections Module, see "The Progressive Runs On Drupal."

Security Issues

• Multiple critical security problems in flexinode: This has been disabled until it can be fixed.

Wysiwyg Editors

• TinyMCE
  • Demos show several configurations of TinyMCE
  • Plug Ins that increase the functionality of TinyMCE
  • Adding Menu Buttons
• FCK Editor
  • FCKEditor Demo
• HtmlArea at Drupal
• HtmlArea Demo
• Xinha - Formerly HtmlArea
• Xinha Demo

Preconfigured Drupal Educational site

• Available for Download

Misc Drupal Websites

• Drupal: Development Seed Blog webmaster is a person who helps on the Drupal Forum. He had started developing a Drupal Groups module.
  • He also started this message thread: Relocalization Network beta launch, fork of organic groups, which talks about him developing the Drupal groups.module.

Applying Patches

• Can someone explain how to patch in layman's terms?
• HOWTO: Set up a test environment to help review patches

Drupal Add-ons

• Supported by Drupal.Org
• Not Supported by Drupal.org
• Setting The World..... Drupal add-ons

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